· Private foundation
Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of MARIA & JOEL FINKLE CHARITABLE TRUS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIFERES ELIYAHU | $235,000 |
| OJC FUND | $30,000 |
| AMAL HATORAH | $22,500 |
| BELZ INSTITUTIONS IN ISAEL | $20,000 |
| PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,850 |
| YESHIVA DERECH HACHAIM | $11,000 |
| CONGREGATION WHITE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CONG BAIS AHRON | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RUBY RED | $10,000 |
| CONG CHAIM VCHESED | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BAIS EPHRAIM | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TETIFERES ELIYOHU4× · 2021–2024 · $658k · revenue +65%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $502k · revenue +39%
- YCYESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM2× · 2020–2021 · $22k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- BHBAIS HATALMUD OF JERUSALEMone grant, 2021 · $25k
- YTYeshiva Tiferes Yisroelone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -15%
- KYKOL YEHUDA INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -75%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate a high school offering religious instruction and general studies as well as a post high school program of talmudic studies. the school shall be run under the standards of orthodox jewish law and tradition.
Religious Teaching
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
A school-section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii), operating from the preschool pre-k level through high school, and chartered ny the new york state education department and board of regents.
Provide education for college age students
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel and the most unlike its peers is Tiferes Eliyohu. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TIFERES ELIYOHU ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
- Who funds AMAL HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA CHAYEI OLAM ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel ↗
- Who funds TIFERES BAIS YAAKOV INC ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DERECH CHAIM ↗
- Who funds RUBY RED ↗
- Who funds KOL YEHUDA INC ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah of Elkins Park ↗
- Who funds KEREN DOVID ELIEZER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Toras Chesed Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jsp Family Foundation · Jsw Foundation · The R & S Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Maria & Joel Finkle Charitable Trus funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 17% of income from government
- Tiferes Bais Yaakov Inc — 16% of income from government
- Yeshiva Chayei Olam — 12% of income from government
- Nachlas Bais Yaakov — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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